CVE-2023-47038
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.11%
Description
A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.
How to fix CVE-2023-47038
To remediate CVE-2023-47038, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/perl—upgrade to 5.34.2-r0 or later
- Debian/perl—upgrade to 5.32.1-4+deb11u3 or later
Is CVE-2023-47038 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 5.34.2-r0
- from 0, < 5.32.1-4+deb11u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |